Friends,
Terrorist-expert, Dr. Gordon Hawn, explains the grave danger in Washington's sponsorship of "neo-fascist or neo-nazi" terrorism in Ukraine. This group of West Ukrainians were of European extract, their parents fought in WWII with the Nazis, and their families were caught in Ukraine in 1945 when the post-war spoils were being divided up and new defining country lines were drawn. It is understandable that they were outraged to find themselves inside the USSR and forced to stay there. However, that doesn't give them the right today to force their will upon East Ukrainians who have been for the most part satisfied with their 300-year Russian history, culture, language and mentality. Please read carefully to understand what numerous other articles have alluded to, yet didn't explain so carefully.
Sharon
http://geostrategicforecasting.net
May 18, 2014
Terrorism in Ukraine
By Gordon M. Hahn
The West, in particular the U.S. government, is in grave danger of unwittingly becoming the sponsor of neo-fascist terrorism in Ukraine. Neither the Barack Obama administration nor U.S. media have focused a single word on the neo-Nazi terrorist threat hanging over Ukraine and its neighbors. In fact, in a recent hearing when U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher asked U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, the architect of Ukraine's chaos and impending demise, to denounce the neo-fascists allied with the Maidan provisional government. Nuland refused, muttering words about grandmothers and children who in her mind led the Kiev's Maidan revolution.
Aside from Rohrabacher (and Pat Buchanan), the Republicans have held to a similar line, but have been insistent that the administration should react to Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged neo-imperial expansionism more aggressively. Indeed, like Nuland, key Republican leader, Senator John McCain, went to Kiev during the Maidan revolution and hobnobbed with Oleg Tyagnibok, leader of the ultra-nationalist and anti-Semitic 'Freedom' Party, which now holds six key posts in the provisional government in Kiev.
At the same time, US media - from Rush Limbaugh to Glenn Beck on the right, to CNN's Anderson Cooper and PBS on the left - have been careful to ignore the pivotal role Ukrainian ultra-nationalist groups played in the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich and the rising tide of Ukrainian neo-fascist terrorism.
While there is not one proven case of the pro-Russian, anti-Maidan eastern Ukrainians engaging in terrorism - defined here as political violence perpetrated against civilians and inactive police and defense forces - there is clear evidence of one hundred or more casualties in terrorist attacks carried out by Kiev's neo-fascist 'Right Sector' (RS) allies against unarmed civilians and purely defensive elements in Ukraine's southeast. Like the Pakistani ISI's fictional support in the war against jihadism, the Maidan regime's Ministry of Internal Affairs has imitated disarming terrorists, such as the RS. RS's leader, Dmitro Yarosh, openly announced he was setting up his headquarters in Dnepropetrovsk in order to dispatch anti-Maidan, pro-federalization activists in Ukraine's southeast; so they know where to find them. By doing nothing to rein in, not to mention to disarm them, Kiev has violated the April Geneva agreement concluded by the West and Russia.
Kiev's manifest refusal to arrest Yarosh or otherwise deactivate the RS led directly to the horrendous May 2nd terrorist attack in Ukraine's glorious southern city of Odessa. A deadly mix of soccer thugs, RS shock troops, and local police burned alive and otherwise slaughtered at least 40 unarmed anti-Kiev activists at the Trade Union House.
Yarosh's own media, the RS website, relayed his take on the atrocity: "May 2, 2014 is another bright page in our national history." RS claimed responsibility for the Odessa pogrom, noting "about a hundred members of 'Right Sector' and patriotic-minded Odessa residents countered the rebels" and that "Dmitro Yarosh ignored the 'expedience' of the election campaign to coordinate the action against the Russian aggression." Yet a week after the attack, Yarosh remains free, and the authorities in Kiev have made no mention of him, no less any attempt to arrest him.
Elsewhere in the country regular Ukrainian army troops along with RS and RS-penetrated National Guard troops have been attacking defensively-postured southern and eastern Ukrainian resistance forces and unarmed activists. In late April they killed some 30 of the Donetsk resistance in and around Slavyansk, and in Mariupol this past week they killed another 20 or more. At least some of them appeared to be unarmed civilians, and one who was a Russian journalist. In the western Ukraine's town of Lvov (Lviv), the heartland of Ukrainian ultra-nationalism, young thugs from the RS and other neo-Nazi groups violently attacked elderly veterans celebrating Victory Day and the defeat of Nazism. Hundreds of police were needed to protect the veterans and secure a corridor through which they were able to escape what otherwise would have been certain death for some 200.
The most the US State Department could muster in the form of 'condemnation' was to regret the loss of life "caused by pro-Russian forces."
None of the above is meant by the present author to condone the actions of the anti-Maidan eastern resistance forces in Donetsk and Lugansk or Putin's annexation of Crimea. However, kidnappings not murder and terror have been the main arrow in the eastern rebels' quiver, and Russia's annexation was peaceful not violent. Moreover, the easterners resort to arms and Putin's rather stealth-like occupation of Crimea came after the Western-backed opposition's violation of the February 21 agreement that could have resolved the crisis and in pursuit of which Putin played a pivotal role, as even Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski acknowledged at the time.
The Obama administration can continue to deny the reality about some of our new allies in the struggle against 'Russian aggression.' However, sooner or later the chickens will come home to roost. For Ukrainians, they already have.
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